I explained to Affinity this summer, "...it would only be in your favor to have a designer learn your tools instead of Figma and Adobe, because the reason they got popular is because people brought them to work."
In 2025, Affinity's trial was one week. Last year, hundreds of thousands of people saw ads and signed up for 6 month licenses. I signed up, but I didn't activate. There was no requirement to activate immediately in the offer, and the welcome email specifically mentioned the license would start after the downloadable products were activated.
Affinity announced in 2024 that the offer has been updated: the 6 month licenses would expire immediately if not started in the next weeks.
Since I had written my own desktop software products, I advised Affinity to email the hundreds of thousands of people and offer another long license, especially if they didn't activate or didn't use it.
I explained my advice to affinity@serif.com:
"I decided... I'm not going to be using my time to learn new design software in a week's trial... I think there is a very easy and (practically) free solution, like I wrote in the original replies, including extending a license."
"...it would only be in your favor to have a designer learn your tools instead of Figma and Adobe, because the reason they got popular is because people brought them to work."
And now, the 2024 web page with the offers redirects to the new announcement!
In 2025, Affinity's trial was one week. Last year, hundreds of thousands of people saw ads and signed up for 6 month licenses. I signed up, but I didn't activate. There was no requirement to activate immediately in the offer, and the welcome email specifically mentioned the license would start after the downloadable products were activated.
Affinity announced in 2024 that the offer has been updated: the 6 month licenses would expire immediately if not started in the next weeks.
Since I had written my own desktop software products, I advised Affinity to email the hundreds of thousands of people and offer another long license, especially if they didn't activate or didn't use it.
I explained my advice to affinity@serif.com:
"I decided... I'm not going to be using my time to learn new design software in a week's trial... I think there is a very easy and (practically) free solution, like I wrote in the original replies, including extending a license."
"...it would only be in your favor to have a designer learn your tools instead of Figma and Adobe, because the reason they got popular is because people brought them to work."
And now, the 2024 web page with the offers redirects to the new announcement!